Underwater Panorama of the West Shore / by Dylan Silver

There is a ton going on in the world of virtual reality. New cameras that can shoot 360 spherical video are becoming affordable, and the visuals are improving. Headsets are becoming commonplace, and the big online networks are adding features to host this type of content. But there are only few rigs that can shoot 360 video underwater with any semblance of optical quality.

I decided to mess around with 360-degree photo stitching. I shot the panorama below with a Canon 5D Mark II and Aquatech housing mounted to a tripod. I stitched it using PTGUI and exported it with Pano2VR. Considering it's too cold for most people to swim in Lake Tahoe, I though it was kind of a cool way to check out underwater.